Examples

I don't take issue with the free-association — I love a good far-out close-reading interpretation — but I think there's an uncanny-valley sort of boundary that needs to be acknowledged when the interpretation gets this far-out: some admission that the proposed framework is largely an exercise in intellectual playfulness.

For the poetry, close-reading level of work, I have had a lot of success with the drafts of Yeats's poems in the back of the Norton anthology --- it's a bit easier to talk about artistic choices and diction and the constraints of form when showing them models.

Mr. Lo Duca, if members of the 2005 Dodgers front office are correct, will most likely be driven -- thanks to a perceived slight by the Mets in not re-signing him -- to prove his worth with the intra-divisional Washington Nationals in 2008, and could produce some value for the close-reading fantasy player willing to take a gamble.